“I can’t hear nothing no more from them. I can’t see them no more. I can’t hold them no more. I can’t do none of that,” said Datrice.

The lone survivor, 10-year-old LaShaun, was also in the van but was able to escape through a window. He swam to shore and flagged down a passing car, giving the driver a chilling account of what happened.

“Before she went into the water, she managed to get into the backseat and held all the kids at once and said, ‘If we’re going to die, we’re going to die together’,” said Good Samaritan Meave Ryan.

On Thursday, the 10-year-old went to play as his family tried to keep his mind off the utter horror of Tuesday night.

Little LaShaun wonders why he survived, and what could have been, reports CBS 2’s Sean Hennessey.

“He’s doing very good, but he’s mentioned it…he will never forget the incident, what happened,” LaShanda’s grandmother, Pearl Posey, said. “He wishes that he could have told his brothers how to swim.”

Newburgh police said Armstrong was distraught over rumors her boyfriend had been cheating on her. Thursday morning, her sister said she had been acting strange and paranoid over the past few weeks.

“She was talking to me about how she felt someone was watching her, she felt like there was pages of her diary missing the lights in her house were flickering on and off,” sister Darice Armstrong said.